Senior Partner Development Manager, Amazon Ads Partner Development Team

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Partner Development Manager to join their dynamic team. This role focuses on building and managing strategic partnerships that drive revenue growth and product adoption for advertising solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in business development, negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration, demonstrating an analytical approach to decision-making. Join a forward-thinking organization that prioritizes innovation and customer-centric solutions, where your contributions will have a significant impact on the advertising landscape. This is an exciting opportunity for a results-oriented leader to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in business development and partnership management.
• Proven track record in negotiating and executing complex agreements.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-impact partnerships to enhance revenue and product adoption.
• Collaborate across teams to innovate and improve partner performance.

Skills

Business Development

Negotiation

Strategic Thinking

Relationship Building

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Senior Partner Development Manager, Amazon Ads Partner Development Team

Job ID: 2915610 | Amazon (China) Holding Company Limited - D24

Amazon Ads helps brands create experiences that delight customers and deliver meaningful results. With 300+ million worldwide customers, and first-party insights based on shopping, streaming and browsing signals, brands can craft innovative campaigns that help customers find and discover anything they want. Our solutions on Amazon.com, services like Twitch, Frevee, Alexa, Amazon Music, and partnerships with third-party publishers and exchanges make Amazon Ads the ultimate amplifier for brands to reach the right audiences in the right places, both on and off Amazon. Amazon Advertising is a key strategic focus for Amazon and is in a rapid and exciting growth phase.

We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining an innovative team working to build a unique, world-class advertising business with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.

Amazon Ads Partners help brands achieve and exceed their desired outcomes through tech innovation and managed services. In order to accelerate the next phase of Amazon Ads development, we are committed to transforming the depth, scale of our partnerships with a diverse landscape of partners across a full range of independent agencies, as well as AdTech and MarTech SaaS providers. Our team builds partnerships across the advertising landscape to drive innovation and growth for all brands, including those that do not sell on Amazon.com.

As Ads partners work across all ad products, supply sources and geographies, this is an exciting opportunity to drive impact widely across the business. The right candidate will be a strategic and results orientated business development leader with a proven track record developing complex tech partnerships. You will cultivate new partnership and drive revenue growth for emerging ads products. You possess great relationship-building skills and are apt to see mutually beneficial opportunities with partners in order to best represent our customers, our brands and our advertising products.

The right person will manage the new business from end-to-end, including understanding market dynamics, evaluating new partnership opportunities, conducting partner outreach, negotiating term sheets and agreements and driving to execution. You are a role model for best practices for incubating new partnerships, diving deep into partners’ tech products, and improving partner performance. Your success will require close collaboration with internal cross-functional teams including Product and Tech on new product innovation designed to help brands unlock better outcomes. You demonstrate the ability to think strategically about issues, identify trends and effectively influence internal stakeholders such as Finance and Legal by earning trust and being right a lot.

Key job responsibilities

1. Close high impact partnerships driving revenue, product adoption and strategic outcomes for Amazon Ads
2. Manage a portfolio of Amazon Ads partners, influencing their tech and GTM strategy
3. Ability to represent Amazon to C-Suite leaders at partner companies
4. Deep on technical business models and product integrations
5. Work cross-functionally across product, tech, sales, legal and finance to drive initiatives and programs
6. Drive innovation to address opportunities for enhanced partner growth at scale
7. Own robust goals for revenue, product adoption and strategic actions
8. Have an analytical approach to business development, leveraging data to drive decisions

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of professional or military experience
• 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
• Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements

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